You can see a scene from the movie with this song in it HERE.

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Okay, I think it’s safe to let the photos out of the bag now.  I took photos of Marie’s gift to the new parents.  Apparently it all stems from the comments in the Happy Halloween thread.  I laughed so hard when I saw it!
Great job Marie!!!

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I love this idea and when I own an office building, I will probably have a kick-ass slide too!
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A company has unveiled what it says is the first helter-skelter to be built inside a UK office building.

Tenants taking up space in the new Electric Works block in Sheffield are offering their staff a quirky [...]

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I heard it through the grapvine that today is TSA’s birthday.  I am posting this photo in honor of her love for kitty cats.
May your day be as happy, relaxed and totally chill as this kitty makes it look!

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Happy Un-Valentines Day.  I found this list on wtop.com, and it seems to leave out some good older songs.  I would add “If This Is It” by Huey Lewis and “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor.  Feel free to add your own!

UNDATED — For those without love at Valentine’s Day, it can be a holiday [...]

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It was a very good year, at least for producing world-famous personages:
January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher, inventor of the Braille writing system for the blind (d. 1852)
January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
Today, February 12 – Happy Brithday to Abraham [...]

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My oldest is 23 years old today and in Norfolk Virginia 23 years ago there was a big ol’ snow storm.  Coincidence?  Maybe.  Maybe not!
Because of the threat of snow that day my mother considered not taking me to my prenatal appointment, but decided I was too close to due and took me anyway.  I [...]

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Best wishes for a fantastic birthday and a wonderful year.

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Coffee, oh coffee
how I miss thee
all of your warmth
and boost of energy
but if I drink you
alas my heart will flutter
and not in a way that’s nice
and my anxiety will triple or quadruple
so I had to make the sacrafice
and say goodbye, my roasted aromatic pal
how I miss you on cold days like this
when you could make [...]

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What was in the white box?
Just what was the gift, inside a white box with a red ribbon wrapped round it, that the Obamas gave to the Bushes on the morning of the inauguration? What sort of present do you give someone on the very day when your mutual displays of pretend niceness become optional? [...]

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“First African-American president. Better be good.” Malia Obama, giving her father pointers on Tuesday’s speech.
Read the article here.

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Before we start to forget all about the news of 2008 please follow watch this video that Tracy shared with me. Very funny!

The price of gas part cracks me up.

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By MARK LEIBOVICH and GRANT BARRETT
WASHINGTON — Politics without buzzwords is like sports without clichés, math without numbers or Blago without bleeps. Tough to imagine, in other words, especially in such a game-changer of a campaign year in which buzzwords were flying like shoes.
Buzzwords are what political wiseguys use to sound all important and knowing [...]

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